The File: A Personal History - Hardcover

Ash, Timothy Garton; Garton Ash, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679455744 ISBN 13: 9780679455745

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1997

Synopsis

In a chilling account of Cold War espionage and treachery, the author of The Uses of Adversity describes his discovery that the East German secret police had compiled a secret file on his activities and of his efforts to track down the truth about that file. 25,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker. Tour.

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Review:

Praise for Timothy Garton Ash:

The Polish Revolution (Winner, Somerset Maugham Prize, 1983)

‘A masterpiece.’
Times Literary Supplement.

We the People (1990)

‘It is with minimal exaggeration that I state that, in the future, there will probably be streets in warsaw, Prague and Budapest bearing the name of Timothy Garton Ash.’
Karel Kyncl, Independent.

‘He is our best informed and beadiest commentator on Europe – eloquent, sceptical, fearless, with a tinge of idealism so wary as to be acceptable.’
Craig Raine

Book Description:

Timothy Garton Ash lived behind the Berlin Wall and joined the millions spied on by the Stasi. In 1993, he gained access to his Stasi file. Here he tells his story, in a classic memoir of dictatorship and betrayal.

'A chilling portrait of treachery and compromise... bravely and beautifully written' John le Carré

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679455744
• ISBN 13: 9780679455745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 262